Italy bans face veils in schools, caps foreign pupils

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government passed a decree on September 25 banning full-face coverings in all Italian schools and capping the proportion of newly arrived foreign pupils with insufficient Italian language skills at 30% per class, effective from that date. Critics accused Meloni of shifting right ahead of next year's elections.

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Italy has passed a decree banning face coverings in all schools and capping the proportion of newly arrived foreign pupils with insufficient Italian at 30 per cent per class from the next school year, the government in Rome said on Friday. The government said the 30 per cent quota applies in primary school to children who do not hold Italian citizenship, were not born in Italy and have not attende

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